208 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”, page 1 of 11
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · January 28, 1998
Re' v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)
Diana Re' sued Owens-Corning, Garlock, W.R. Grace, Flintkote and others in Orleans Parish. She alleged she developed mesothelioma from asbestos dust carried home on her father's work clothes during her childhood, from 1963…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · July 13, 1995
Higgins v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1995)
The Appellate Division reversed the judgment against Owens-Corning Fiberglas and remanded for a new trial in favor of plaintiff Higgins, and dismissed Owens-Corning's cross appeal on the medical monitoring award as moot. A…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · June 14, 1990
Owens Corning Fiberglas v. Ind. Comm'n (1990)
…Charlotte Hammond, against Owens Corning Fiberglas and denied Owens Corning credit for her loss of consortium recovery. Under section 7 of the Workers' Occupational Diseases Act, a widow has an independent cause of action for death…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · August 13, 1982
Neubauer v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1982)
Ten insulation workers or their survivors sued makers of asbestos insulation in federal court in Wisconsin. Two of the workers died of mesothelioma, and the other eight have asbestosis. The defendants moved for summary judgment, arguing the…
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Court case · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · March 6, 1997
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Henkel (1997)
The D.C. Court of Appeals affirmed the judgments for the plaintiffs against Owens-Corning Fiberglas, rejecting its Batson, state-of-the-art evidence and statute of limitations challenges. A Batson objection must be raised before…
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Court case · Kentucky Supreme Court · August 24, 2000
Carroll v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (2000)
…s lung cancer claim was not time-barred, which favors the plaintiff over the asbestos defendants (Owens-Corning and others). Asbestosis and lung cancer are separate and distinct diseases, so a cause of action for lung…
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Court case · Texas Supreme Court · June 5, 1998
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Malone (1998)
The Texas Supreme Court affirmed both courts of appeals' judgments for the plaintiffs against Owens-Corning Fiberglas, holding any error in excluding OCF's mitigation evidence harmless and that the punitive awards, alone or aggregated with…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · May 11, 1998
McCauley v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)
Bradley McCauley sued Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning and other companies in May 1993, alleging asbestos-related diseases from occupational exposure during work from 1947 to 1986 in construction, as a laborer and plumber. A 1985…
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Court case · Wisconsin Supreme Court · October 27, 1999
Sopha v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1999)
The Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed the circuit court's order dismissing the Sophas' mesothelioma action against Owens-Corning and the other defendants as time-barred, and remanded for further proceedings. A diagnosis of a non-malignant…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · June 5, 1995
Ripa v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1995)
The appellate court affirmed liability and compensatory damages for plaintiff Pauline Ripa against Owens-Corning, but cut Owens-Corning's share to thirty percent and reversed the $5.5 million punitive award, remanding for a new…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · January 31, 1990
Kraciun v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1990)
Six longtime workers at the E.I. du Pont plant in Clinton, Iowa, and their wives sued makers of asbestos insulation products. The workers said they were exposed through insulation on pipes and boilers, and in some cases through cleaning out machine…
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Court case · Ohio Court of Common Pleas · January 12, 1987
Lavelle v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1987)
Lavelle sued Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Raymark Industries, Nicolet and other defendants in a products liability case over asbestos exposure. He has asbestosis but not cancer. He worked as an insulator, pipefitter and factory worker and was…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · August 11, 1998
McClure v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)
The appellate court affirmed the jury verdicts for plaintiffs Bicknell, Thacker and McClure against Owens Corning Fiberglas and (in McClure) Owens-Illinois, and remanded only so the trial court could apply setoffs for settlements with other…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · July 31, 1996
McNeil v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1996)
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed the Superior Court's order to the extent it allowed a new trial on the lung cancer claim (a win for Owens Corning), and affirmed a new trial limited to the…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · October 21, 1999
McClure v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1999)
…and ordered judgment entered for Owens Corning and Owens-Illinois because the evidence did not prove a civil conspiracy. Parallel conduct by manufacturers of the same or similar products may be circumstantial evidence of a civil…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · February 14, 1996
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Wasiak (1996)
The court affirmed the trial court's judgment for the plaintiffs (about $1.8 million compensatory and $3.7 million punitive damages) against Owens-Corning, overruling all eleven points of error. Under Alabama law and due…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · February 27, 1989
Fisher v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. (1989)
Charles Fisher and his wife sued several asbestos product companies in 1985, claiming his exposure to asbestos had caused asbestosis, cancer, and possibly mesothelioma. The parties settled for $60,000, and the Fishers signed a release of all claims,…
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Court case · Iowa Supreme Court · October 16, 1991
Wilber v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. (1991)
The Iowa Supreme Court reversed the summary judgment for the defendants (Owens-Corning and others) and remanded, holding the widow's mesothelioma suit was not time barred by the earlier asbestosis diagnosis. Diagnosis of asbestosis does…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of the Virgin Islands · September 27, 1991
Dunn v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass (1991)
The court denied Owens-Corning's motion for JNOV and for a new trial on liability, but ordered a new trial unless plaintiff Dunn accepted a reduction of compensatory damages from $1.3 million to $500…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · September 23, 2005
Adams v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (2005)
Thomas Jefferson was one of several hundred plaintiffs suing over asbestos exposure. His claim against his former employer, Cooper/T. Smith Stevedoring, alleged that he worked for Cooper as a longshoreman on the Mississippi River in 1965 and at…